Damen
Damen was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,911 among boys’ names; 2,459 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Damen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Damen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Damen?
#5,911 among boys’ names, 2025
Damen fell from #3,094 in 2015 to #5,911 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 19.3 to 8.8 per million.
74 babies in 2003, the peak
Damen peaked in 2003, when 74 boys were given it, #1,672 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,911 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,352 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,709 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,366 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 15 | #5,822 | 8.6 |
| 2020 | 32 | #3,434 | 18.5 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,109 | 21.2 |
| 2018 | 32 | #3,459 | 17.6 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,527 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,704 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,094 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,898 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 52 | #2,404 | 27.5 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,500 | 26.4 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,409 | 27.4 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,332 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,591 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,722 | 22.1 |
| 2007 | 52 | #2,451 | 25.1 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,041 | 31.6 |
| 2005 | 65 | #1,944 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 67 | #1,833 | 33.8 |
| 2003 | 74 | #1,672 | 37.5 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,893 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 58 | #1,890 | 29.9 |
| 2000 | 57 | #1,849 | 29.0 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,691 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 52 | #1,875 | 27.2 |
| 1997 | 36 | #2,316 | 19.1 |
| 1996 | 60 | #1,616 | 31.7 |
| 1995 | 47 | #1,841 | 24.7 |
| 1994 | 57 | #1,605 | 29.5 |
| 1993 | 51 | #1,697 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 44 | #1,847 | 22.0 |
| 1991 | 69 | #1,354 | 34.2 |
| 1990 | 62 | #1,416 | 30.2 |
| 1989 | 42 | #1,797 | 21.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #1,820 | 19.3 |
| 1987 | 46 | #1,540 | 24.6 |
| 1986 | 28 | #2,063 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,240 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,767 | 17.7 |
| 1983 | 34 | #1,691 | 19.0 |
| 1982 | 26 | #2,066 | 14.3 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,866 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,452 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,194 | 33.7 |
| 1978 | 70 | #1,042 | 42.6 |
| 1977 | 47 | #1,319 | 28.6 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,289 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,115 | 36.5 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,126 | 33.7 |
| 1973 | 29 | #1,616 | 18.6 |
| 1972 | 29 | #1,609 | 17.9 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,006 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 22 | #1,899 | 11.8 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,901 | 5.6 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,345 | 7.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,074 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,603 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,094 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,724 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Damen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Damen has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Damen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Damen, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,459 Americans ever recorded as Damen. The median Damen alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,987 people named Damen (9 women and girls, 1,978 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,294 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 11 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 452 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 656 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 882 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 356 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Damen born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 5 | #1,333 | 1.7× |
Where Damen is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Damen is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1963 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Damen with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 271,656 babies since 1880, Damen is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 4,976 babies (<1%), the eighth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Damen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Damen and names like it
- Compare Damen and DamianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sDamen peaked in 2003.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Damen since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Damen.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Damen alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with DMost given first.